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CONFEDERATE  STATES  OF  AMERICA, 
Bureau  of  Conscription, 

Richmond,  I'm.,  May  14,  1863. 

Tho  following  Act  of  Congress  is  published  for  the  information  of  all 
concerned : 

An  Act  to  repeal  certain  clauses  of  an  act  entitled  an  act  to 
exempt  certain  Persons  from  Military  Servi-e,  etc.,  approved 
11th  October  1862. 

"  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
so  much  of  the  act  approved  October  11th,  1802,  as  exempts  from  mili- 
tary service  'one  person,  either  us  agent,  owner  or  overseer,  on  each  plan- 
tation on  which  one  white  person  is  required  to  be  kept  by  the  laws  or 
ordinances  of  any  .State,  and  on  which  there  is  no  white  male  adult  not 
liable  to  military  service,  and  in  States  having  no  such  law,  one  person., 
as  agent,  owner  or  overseer,  on  each  plantation  of  twenty  negroes,  and 
on  which  there  is  no  white  male  adult  not  liable  to  military  service,'  and 
also  the  following  clause  of  said  act;  to  wit :  'and,  furthermore,  for  ad- 
ditional police  for  every  twenty  negroes,  on  two  or  more  plantations, 
within  five  miles  of  each  other,  and  each  having  less  thau  twenty  negroes, 
and  on  which  there  is  no  white  male  adult  not  liable  to  military  duty, 
one  person,  being  the  oldest  of  the  owners  or  overseers  on  such  planta- 
tion,' be  and  are  hereby  repealed. 

"  2.  For  the  police  and  management  of  slaves  there  shall  be  exempted 
one  person  on  each  farm  or  plantation,  the  sole  property  of  a  minor,  a 
person  of  unsound  mind,  a  feme  sole,  or  a  person  absent  from  home  in 
the  military  or  naval  service  of  the  Confederacy,  on  which  there  are 
twenty  or  more  slaves:  prodded  the  person  so  exempted  was  employed 
and  acting  as  an  overseer  previous  to  the  10th  April  1862,  and  there  is  no 
white  male  adult  on  said  farm  or  plantation  who  is  not  liable  to  military 
duty ;  which  fact  shall  be  verified  by  the  affidavits  of  said  person  and  two 
respectable  citizens,  and  shall  be  filed  with  the  enrolling  officer:  and  pro- 
vided the  owner  of  such  farm  or  plantation,  his  agent  or  legal  repiesen- 
tative,  shall  make  affidavit  and  deliver  the  same  to  the  enrolling  officer, 
that  after  diligent  effort  no  overseer  can  be  procured  for  such  farm  or 
plantation  not  liable  to  military  duty:  provided  further,  that  this  clause 
shall  not  extend  to  any  farm  or  plantation  on  which  the  negroes  havo 


been  placed  by  division  from  any  other  farm  or  plantation,  since,  the  11th 
day  of  October  1862:  provided  further,  that  for  every  person  exempted 
ns  aforesaid,  and  during  the  period  of  such  exemption, there  shall  be  paid 
annually  into  the  public  treasury  by  the  owners  of  sucB  Blares  the  sum 
of  five  hundred  dollars. 

"3.  Such  other  persons  shall  be  exempted  as  the  President  shall  bo 
satisfied  ought  to  be  exempted,  in  districts  of  country  deprived  of  white 
or  slave  labor  indispensable  to  the  production  of  grain  or  provisions,  ne- 
cessary for  the  support  of  the  population  remaining  :;t  home,  and  also  on 
account  of  justice,  equity  and  necessity. 

"4.  In  addition  to  the  State  officers  exempted  by  the  act  of  October 
11th,  1802,  there  shall  also  be  exempted  all  State  officers  whom  the  Go- 
vernor of  any  State  may  claim  to  have  exempted  for  the  due  administra- 
tion of  the  government  and  laws  thereof:  but  this  exemption  shall  not 
continue  in  any  State  after  the  adjournment  of  the  next  regular  session 
of  its  Legislature,  unless  such  Legislature  shall,  by  law,  exempt  them- 
from  military  duty  in  the  provisional  army  of  the  Confederate  States." 

[Approved  May  1,  1863.] 

G.  J.  RAINS, 
Brig.  Gen' I  and  Superintendent, 


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